We construct a framework for the interaction between economic system reform and the technological-economic system in order to analyze the dynamic process of China's economic transformation and development. China has passed through three major phases of economic system reform, which have involved...

National dietary guidelines serve as a strategic tool to facilitate dietary adjustments, improve human nutrition, and reduce environmental strain by guiding individuals toward healthier dietary choices. This study examines the evolution of Chinese Dietary Guidelines (CDG) and compares them with...

Using an aggregate credit spread index, we find that it has substantial predictive power for corporate bond returns over short and long horizons. The return predictability is economically and statistically significant and robust to various controls. The credit spread index and its components...

Trees play an important part in landscaping as well as thermal environment adjustment. This study selected a satellite city of Sichuan Province in China, Xindu, for field measurement about tree’s crown characteristics on their cooling performances on five sunny summer days during August 2019....

Power cable engineering is a critical method for urban power supply, and ductbank laying of cables is a way of underground cable lines. Considering the cost and construction, MPP pipes with poor heat dissipation performance are often used in ductbank. Many cables are arranged densely in the...

We study numerical algorithms for reflected anticipated backward stochastic differential equations (RABSDEs) driven by a Brownian motion and a mutually independent martingale in a defaultable setting. The generator of a RABSDE includes the present and future values of the solution. We introduce...

Entrepreneurial activity measures a country's economic vitality. Studies have examined the psychological cognitive conditions that influence women's entrepreneurial activity by considering the effects of individual psychological cognitive conditions in isolation while ignoring their...

This study investigates synergies between individual and national variables that promote opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship with a framework based on the national system of entrepreneurship. A qualitative comparative analysis of fuzzy sets of 39 country cases shows that institutional or...

As the world's largest energy consumer, it is worth exploring how China can achieve high-quality energy development. This paper aims to assess the role of green finance development in China's high-quality energy development (HED). We develop two indicator systems to measure the level of...

This paper aims to comprehensively examine the impact of China's environmental decentralization on corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and investigate the underlying mechanisms. We analyze data from Chinese listed firms spanning from 2010 to 2020. The empirical...